Proposals to extend time for troop caregivers left hanging due to * veto

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Proposals to extend time for troop caregivers left hanging
By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Saturday, October 20, 2007

WASHINGTON — Proposals to give families more time away from work to help with wounded troops convalescence were stalled when the House failed to override President Bush’s veto of children’s health insurance legislation.

The new State Children’s Health Insurance Program bill, or SCHIP, which would have boosted the program by $35 billion over the next five years, fell 17 votes short of a successful veto override.

Bush had promised to veto the measure when Congress approved it last month, and instead has backed more modest increases for the program.

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